Maybe professional "anti-worms" such as this are the best way to handle security, being that the average joe mousepad doesnt understand, or even keep up w/ virus alerts. Would this raise to many legal issues, or is it the "wave of the future"?
No offense, but your missing one very big thing: Where do you take a linux machine when you "break" it? I know I certinaly haven't run across a shop that can, or even would try to fix a messed up linux box. So while your parents may have no problem running linux on a day to day basis, if by some chance they mess something up, your there to fix it.
I'd like to term this as a "Second Hand Geek". Most consumers don't have a "second hand geek" to fix a problem for them. So arises another big hurdle for linux on the consumer desktop. With windows, easy to use help is available, and often a commerical user can, although they may not understand how, fix a problem, and if not they can just take it to best buy or comp usa and have them do it. With linux a million cryptically written HOWTO's are available, and even an experienced user can have trouble understanding them. See the problem?
There's a big, BIG but here. With out argument, it's pretty safe to say that linux is an excellent operating system, its safe, secure, reliable and stable (most of the time, which is alot more than can be said about it's competion). I've run it on several systems of my own, but always end up back on windows for on reason or another, those reasons mainly stem around one big thing...with windows, changing settings, upgrading, and configuring new hardware/software doesn't make me want to run screaming into the night pulling my hair out.
It's simply not nessicary to have stuff be this difficult. Sure, it can very easily be learned, and there's documentation out the wazoo for the majority of the topics I, and I'm sure many others have had problems with, but installing a new video card should not, under any circumstances, turn into an 8 hour battle with a configuration file, and unless your a hard core geek, that could happen very easily. This is the core problem with linux, and why the consumer wont use it until fixed. My parents and friends have problems running windows XP...do you think they could handle some of the even semi complex tasks of running a linux box? Highly doubtful at best.
Until linux can match the ease of use of windows (gawd, I can't believe I'm saying this), it's going to remain a niche OS for the geeky, mostly the geeky w/ lots of free time on their hands to bicker and fight w/ their computer when things go wrong.
A deaf monkey can hear the difference between a lossy (mp3) file and a lossless (SHN or FLAC) file. No matter what the sample rate of whatever your source mp3 will cut it off at 16khz. How do you think it makes its compression? Sure, if your listening on a computer speaker, you can't tell, but most people who care enough to bother downloading a file that is 25x the size are going to have their computer hooked up to a decent system anyhow. Go to any etree.org site, and you'll find any number of sources as to how much mp3 ruins the quality of music. Good quality mp3 (192k and above, but once you go higher, your wasting your time converting to mp3) does sound quite like the original, but the loss is still there. This has been proven by members of the live music community (again, etree.org) many many times.
I participate in the live music sharing community on Direct Connect. We use several programs to share SHN, a lossless format, as well as mp3 (to a less extent). All of our shares are legal, and our ops (of which i am one) enforce legality w/ an iron fist (at least for a bunch of hippie kids). I wonder how this tech distinguishes our legal share from an illegal one? Would we have any sort of legal recourse if they were to curropt our legal files?
My company still has a few hundred clients on SCO. Everyone that gets a new system, or a new server gets linux. With this news we're looking into getting rid of SCO altogether. Good thing to, because half of our time is spent fixing stupid little problems with SCO, and we're stuck w/out an OO compiler because of it.
Yes, and if it's an email address it could be just as easily disposed of. I certainly hope that no one actually thinks that gwbush@whitehouse.gov (or whatever his email address is) is actually the president?!? At best it's a white house intern who just reads and deletes email all day. I don't see this form as being any different!
http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.htm appears to be a form to email the australian PM. Unless I'm blind and the words "Email the Prime Minister" don't mean that anymore.
I'm wearing a phish shirt and jeans. Clean clothes is our dress code. If a client is showing up for a demo they ask us to wear something with a collar. Thats it.
Slashdot Mirror
...apparently even god can't protect a server from a good slashdotting :)
or do we end up breaking every "physical limit" about 5 years after people start saying we'll never be able to break it?
Maybe professional "anti-worms" such as this are the best way to handle security, being that the average joe mousepad doesnt understand, or even keep up w/ virus alerts. Would this raise to many legal issues, or is it the "wave of the future"?
Well, then I'd go back farther in time, and patient...patienting! yah!
Someone should build a time machine, go back, get a patient on making crappy broken operating systems, come back and sue mircosoft!
No offense, but your missing one very big thing: Where do you take a linux machine when you "break" it? I know I certinaly haven't run across a shop that can, or even would try to fix a messed up linux box. So while your parents may have no problem running linux on a day to day basis, if by some chance they mess something up, your there to fix it.
I'd like to term this as a "Second Hand Geek". Most consumers don't have a "second hand geek" to fix a problem for them. So arises another big hurdle for linux on the consumer desktop. With windows, easy to use help is available, and often a commerical user can, although they may not understand how, fix a problem, and if not they can just take it to best buy or comp usa and have them do it. With linux a million cryptically written HOWTO's are available, and even an experienced user can have trouble understanding them. See the problem?
There's a big, BIG but here. With out argument, it's pretty safe to say that linux is an excellent operating system, its safe, secure, reliable and stable (most of the time, which is alot more than can be said about it's competion). I've run it on several systems of my own, but always end up back on windows for on reason or another, those reasons mainly stem around one big thing...with windows, changing settings, upgrading, and configuring new hardware/software doesn't make me want to run screaming into the night pulling my hair out.
It's simply not nessicary to have stuff be this difficult. Sure, it can very easily be learned, and there's documentation out the wazoo for the majority of the topics I, and I'm sure many others have had problems with, but installing a new video card should not, under any circumstances, turn into an 8 hour battle with a configuration file, and unless your a hard core geek, that could happen very easily. This is the core problem with linux, and why the consumer wont use it until fixed. My parents and friends have problems running windows XP...do you think they could handle some of the even semi complex tasks of running a linux box? Highly doubtful at best.
Until linux can match the ease of use of windows (gawd, I can't believe I'm saying this), it's going to remain a niche OS for the geeky, mostly the geeky w/ lots of free time on their hands to bicker and fight w/ their computer when things go wrong.
Flame on!
A deaf monkey can hear the difference between a lossy (mp3) file and a lossless (SHN or FLAC) file. No matter what the sample rate of whatever your source mp3 will cut it off at 16khz. How do you think it makes its compression? Sure, if your listening on a computer speaker, you can't tell, but most people who care enough to bother downloading a file that is 25x the size are going to have their computer hooked up to a decent system anyhow. Go to any etree.org site, and you'll find any number of sources as to how much mp3 ruins the quality of music. Good quality mp3 (192k and above, but once you go higher, your wasting your time converting to mp3) does sound quite like the original, but the loss is still there. This has been proven by members of the live music community (again, etree.org) many many times.
Check your facts before you make bold claims.
I participate in the live music sharing community on Direct Connect. We use several programs to share SHN, a lossless format, as well as mp3 (to a less extent). All of our shares are legal, and our ops (of which i am one) enforce legality w/ an iron fist (at least for a bunch of hippie kids). I wonder how this tech distinguishes our legal share from an illegal one? Would we have any sort of legal recourse if they were to curropt our legal files?
My company still has a few hundred clients on SCO. Everyone that gets a new system, or a new server gets linux. With this news we're looking into getting rid of SCO altogether. Good thing to, because half of our time is spent fixing stupid little problems with SCO, and we're stuck w/out an OO compiler because of it.
Yes, and if it's an email address it could be just as easily disposed of. I certainly hope that no one actually thinks that gwbush@whitehouse.gov (or whatever his email address is) is actually the president?!? At best it's a white house intern who just reads and deletes email all day. I don't see this form as being any different!
http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.htm appears to be a form to email the australian PM. Unless I'm blind and the words "Email the Prime Minister" don't mean that anymore.
either that or yeahRight@youspamjunkie.com
In Soviet Russia PC rolls YOU!
we have 2 christmas parties and also get a nice bonus.
I'm wearing a phish shirt and jeans. Clean clothes is our dress code. If a client is showing up for a demo they ask us to wear something with a collar. Thats it.
what can i say? they just dont bother me that much.
I particularly liked the ad for a tivo i got at the bottom of a page predicting tivo's demise.